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I had to correct your spelling there: πεις, not πες.

In the context you’ve given, both are subjunctives, following μη “don’t”. Λες is the present subjunctive, meaning it’s imperfective (continuous); πεις is the aorist subjunctive (perfective). So “don’t keep telling me” vs “don’t tell me” (once-off).

Why would the lyricist switch aspect in the verb? Variety: he gets to say the same thing in the chorus twice, but with a different rhyme:

http://www.stixoi.info/stixoi.ph…

Μεγάλα λόγια μη μου λες
όσα ακούω τα ξανάκουσα τόσες φορές
Μεγάλα λόγια μη μου πεις
μείνε και τίποτα μη μου υποσχεθείς

Don’t keep telling me big words.
What I’m hearing I’ve heard so many times before.
Don’t tell me big words.
Stay and promise me nothing.

Well, Lyonel Perabo mon vieux, this is going to be an unimaginative answer, but thanks for asking.

• University education: Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
• Well, no electricity, so that’s irrelevant. Good, I hated engineering.
• University education: Bachelor of Computer Science
• … No computers either. And too much damn competition from all the other time travelling geeks.
• University education: Masters in Cognitive Science
• Dude, you can’t get a job with that now
• University education: Doctorate in Linguistics
• Quite apart from the woe is me of Nick Nicholas’ answer to What is your personal experience with obtaining a linguistics degree? …

Well, let’s think about it. 1516, Crete and Cyprus were both under Venetian rule. They were colonial outposts, but the Renaissance was starting to make an impression there: there were Petrarchan sonnets in Cypriot, and literary societies in Crete. (The best of Cretan literature was still a century down the road.)

If I was a city dweller and/or Catholic, I’d have access to Renaissance learning. I’d probably write even worse Latin poetry than I write here to Michael Masiello, and I might get a gig in Venice. Aldus Manutius has just died, but I hear they’re still hiring Classical Greek proofreaders.

If I were a villager and Orthodox, there would be two paths for someone through book learning. The clergy would be one, and I think my chanting would be passable, as demonstrated here.

The other would be as a notary. I could have abysmal spelling in Greek, codeswitching with Italian for every third word. And five centuries down the road, some poor shmuck working in a digital library of Ancient and Mediaeval Greek would be tweaking their morphological analyser, to deal with the mess I’d bequeathed them.

I’m going to miss you, Manolis Varouchas.

What Garrick Saito said, only with more anger and venom.

Quora does incur a reputation loss, by being seen as robotic and unnuanced in its enforcement of moderation. In fact, Laura Hale has argued that public statements by Marc Bodnick about who should be banned don’t reflect who actually gets banned—which means that there’s less than complete message discipline about Quora moderation or concern about perception of it, to begin with.

But since we’re all expendable and fungible (and that includes Top Writers), Quora doesn’t particularly care—or at least, it thinks that the benefits of offering a safe space through BNRB outweigh the risks of anodyne discourse, or hurt feelings.

In any case, it takes months for new Quorans to work out any issues with Quora moderation, it’s inside baseball, and it will not deter people from signing up in any real sense.

So yes. It’s a tiny drop in the bucket and insignificant in the grand scheme of things (whatever that might look like).

As, no doubt, is this:

User’s answer to How do I find out what comment caused a Quora Moderation warning?

As I observed at the time, if the episode was not a clear message from Quora’s administration that my presence and contributions are not valued or appreciated in any way, it was completely indistinguishable from one, and it has left me seriously considering deleting all of my answers before leaving Quora for good.

From Klimt’s Two Adeles: The Bloch-Bauer Paintings: Adele I is on permanent display in the Neue Galerie, and Adele II is on permanent loan to the Museum of Modern Art. I can’t find the status of the other three.

We have the following question as data, and we will assume that there is no intrinsic bias to people self-selecting in the survey:

How do Quorans score on the Political Compass Test?

Yes, the Political Compass test is deeply flawed. Whatevs.

As of this writing:

Left Libertarian: 91

Right Libertarian: 19

Left Authoritarian: 3

Right Authoritarian: 6

https://www.meta-chart.com/share…

… The answer based on the aforementioned question is: yes.

Such japes might cause much merriment at first,
or second even; but I warrant you,
that by the fifteenth time that poetaster
had made his verse response to some request,
the joke by then would be well past its prime,
and this ill habit taken by its readers
as evidence of mental feebleness—
as seen with Judge Roy Ashland on the West Wing.

What do they think? *sigh*

The students at the Classics Department in the University of Auckland have this channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/…

In which they have published three recordings of pop songs sung in Ancient Greek, with Erasmian pronunciation.

They are exceedingly clever renderings, both in translation and staging. Mama Mia even has a Sappho quote. The students at the Classics Department in the University of Auckland make me proud to be Antipodean. (Because Australians like taking credit for their cooler cousins.)

If you can read Modern Greek, and delve into the comments…

… Well, if you delve into YouTube comments, you deserve what you got. But it is particularly disspiriting. Poke your own eyes out level disspiriting. I am grateful that at least some Greeks leapt to these kids defense’ (even if a couple of them still thought Erasmian was bogus). The majority just made dick jokes (spelling “dick” in Erasmian: πόυτσο. Ha. Ha. Ha).

Most Greeks aren’t aware that Ancient Greek was pronounced differently, and too many of those who are think it’s a Western conspiracy against them. They don’t base this on any knowledge of Ancient Greek epigraphy, or any consideration of how noone is going to invent the alphabet and then come up with a dozen ways of writing /i/. They base this on a rigid refusal to think outside the Reuchlinian box of their own knowledge of Greek.

“I have a deal with Dimitra Triantafyllidou. She gets to be MVW on Culture of Greece, and I get to be MVW on Greek (language). She gets to teach me on Greek culture, and I… get to be corrected by her on Greek language.”

(If Dimitra didn’t know about the deal before, she sure does now.)

I write lots of scattered other stuff too, including linguistics, music, and conlangs; but Greek language is my main gig.

Oh, and I draw cartoons of people I like here. This, so far, I like the best, not least because it features Lyonel Perabo, who A2A’d me:

Edward Conway dreams of Fire and Ice by Nick Nicholas on Gallery of Awesomery

I keep them open in a separate tab for a later time; I might take a day or so to get to them. I often get a lot out of longer answers (though not always), but they’re not part of my inbetween-tasks graze of my Quora feed.

Dimitra Triantafyllidou. In a good way. Because she often calls me to account, and not infrequently corrects me. I don’t enjoy it, but I do appreciate it.

BNRB (Grrr) compels me not to name the bad nemesis (in the literal sense). Suffice to say, he’s a guy with what I consider an unhealthy obsession with treating questions about the Roman Empire as questions about the Byzantine Empire. (Yes, they are contiguous, but we know what time period anyone but an ideologue means when they ask Roman Empire questions, and it isn’t the 15th century.) He’s blocked me, I’ve muted him (because I regard blocking as unmannered), and I mostly stay out of his foul-mouthed way.